Injury prevention
- Identify restrictions/weakness
- Holistic review
- Dance and Pre-pointe assessments
- Educate patient re ability/limitations
Injury management
- Identify level of severity
- Education
- Treat appropriately
- Home exercise program
- Self- management advice
- Referral recommendations if required
Education and advice
- Body awareness
- Training load
- Technique and performance
Enhance dance technique
- Range of movement
- Flexibility
- Balance/centre
Individualised exercise programs
- In house Pilates equipment
- Home exercise programming
Why have a Dance Assessment?
- Entry to course/school
- Achieve higher level – e.g. Pre-pointe
- Repetitive injury
- Underlying pathology – e.g. Scoliosis
- Physiological changes – e.g. Growth spurt
- Injury prevention
What does a Dance Assessment entail?
- Dance history
- Medical review
- History of injury
- Physical review
- Dance specific tests
- Exercises to take home
- Report/summary
